From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:15:16 -0400 (EDT) > BTW. two years ago, I reported a bug that userspace programs on sparc64 > would randomly crash in a few hours with preempt enabled > ( http://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc&m=121222607414906&w=4 ) > > Now I tried the same workload with 2.6.35 and it is stable with preempt. > > Are you aware that the bug was fixed? Or if not, it may be still lurking > there and some unrelated change hid the race condition. Should I bisect > the kernel to find out which patch actually fixed (or hid) the bug? I can't think of anything we did explicitly to fix that. I'm sure you can find more useful things to do than to try and bisect that thing down, really :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
